Gregory Elacqua
Principal Economist in the Education Division at the Inter-American Development Bank
Gregory Elacqua is currently the Principal Economist in the Education Division at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington D.C. He has conducted extensive research on schools in Latin America and has also been active in the politics of educational policy reform.
His research and technical policy work focus on the economics of education, school finance and efficiency of spending, teacher policy, school accountability, school choice, centralized student and teacher assignment, using AI to scale education policies, and the political economy of the educational system.
He holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Princeton University.